In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger     an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser. (CVE-2018-8036)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to 2.0.16

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2018-8036: Fix infinite loop while parsing files     that leads to an out of memory issue (bsc#1099721).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2018-8036: A crafted file could have triggered an     infinite loop which lead to DoS (bsc#1099721).

  - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger     an extremely long running computation when parsing the     page tree. (bsc#1111009) :

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256639	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-8036	Nessus	Misc.	medium
129630	Fedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
128625	Fedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
128624	Fedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
123290	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-670)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
118381	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1245)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
117353	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-975)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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